Néstor Pitana
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Néstor Pitana is an Argentine football referee renowned for officiating high-profile international matches, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Néstor Pitana canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8583787 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Néstor Pitana Context triple: [France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final), referee, Néstor Pitana]
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A.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Guillermo Barros Schelotto is an Argentine former footballer and manager best known as a legendary Boca Juniors winger and later successful coach in South America and MLS.
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B.
Alejandro Sabella
Alejandro Sabella was an Argentine footballer and manager best known internationally for coaching Argentina to the 2014 FIFA World Cup final.
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C.
Gerardo Martino
Gerardo Martino is an Argentine football manager and former player best known for coaching top clubs and national teams, including FC Barcelona, Argentina, and Mexico.
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D.
Gustavo Barros Schelotto
Gustavo Barros Schelotto is an Argentine former professional footballer and coach, known for his midfield career at clubs like Boca Juniors and his long-standing collaboration with his twin brother Guillermo in coaching roles.
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E.
Óscar Tabárez
Óscar Tabárez is a renowned Uruguayan football manager best known for his long, transformative tenure leading Uruguay’s national team to major international success.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Néstor Pitana Target entity description: Néstor Pitana is an Argentine football referee renowned for officiating high-profile international matches, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final.
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A.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Guillermo Barros Schelotto is an Argentine former footballer and manager best known as a legendary Boca Juniors winger and later successful coach in South America and MLS.
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B.
Alejandro Sabella
Alejandro Sabella was an Argentine footballer and manager best known internationally for coaching Argentina to the 2014 FIFA World Cup final.
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C.
Gerardo Martino
Gerardo Martino is an Argentine football manager and former player best known for coaching top clubs and national teams, including FC Barcelona, Argentina, and Mexico.
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D.
Gustavo Barros Schelotto
Gustavo Barros Schelotto is an Argentine former professional footballer and coach, known for his midfield career at clubs like Boca Juniors and his long-standing collaboration with his twin brother Guillermo in coaching roles.
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E.
Óscar Tabárez
Óscar Tabárez is a renowned Uruguayan football manager best known for his long, transformative tenure leading Uruguay’s national team to major international success.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football referee
ⓘ
human ⓘ sports official ⓘ |
| basedIn | Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confederation | CONMEBOL ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | South America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Argentina ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-06-17 ⓘ |
| employer | Argentine Football Association NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Pitana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| FIFAListedRefereeSince | 2010 ⓘ |
| fifaWorldCupFinalReferee | 2018 ⓘ |
| fullName | Néstor Fabián Pitana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Néstor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFIFABadge | true ⓘ |
| hasPlayedSport | football ⓘ |
| hasRole | referee ⓘ |
| height | 1.92 m ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned | Spanish ⓘ |
| league | Argentine Primera División NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Argentine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
officiating the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final
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officiating the opening match of the 2014 FIFA World Cup ⓘ |
| notableWork | officiating high-profile international football matches ⓘ |
| occupation | football referee ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
2014 FIFA World Cup as referee
ⓘ
2015 Copa América as referee ⓘ 2016 Olympic Games football tournament as referee ⓘ 2018 FIFA World Cup as referee ⓘ Copa Libertadores as referee ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Corpus, Misiones, Argentina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| previousOccupation |
actor
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lifeguard ⓘ |
| refereedMatch |
2018 FIFA World Cup Final
NERFINISHED
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Brazil vs Croatia 2014 FIFA World Cup opening match NERFINISHED ⓘ France vs Croatia 2018 FIFA World Cup Final NERFINISHED ⓘ France vs Uruguay 2018 FIFA World Cup quarter-final ⓘ Russia vs Croatia 2018 FIFA World Cup quarter-final NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refereedTournament |
2014 FIFA World Cup
NERFINISHED
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2015 Copa América NERFINISHED ⓘ 2016 Olympic Games football tournament ⓘ 2018 Copa Libertadores NERFINISHED ⓘ 2018 FIFA World Cup NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| refereeingDebutInTopDivision | Argentine Primera División NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Néstor Pitana Description of subject: Néstor Pitana is an Argentine football referee renowned for officiating high-profile international matches, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
France vs Croatia (2018 FIFA World Cup Final)